Sam Michael: “If you?óÔé¼Ôäóre not bringing typically 0.1s, 0.15s on average to every Grand Prix you?óÔé¼Ôäóre not going to stay competitive. And anything you bring above that on average you should start pulling away, or making up ground on your main competitors.”

“You always want to be linked with these seats and thankfully I was. The best thing to hope for is that I’ll get a seat one day. I’ve always said I want to be winning races and championships, but whoever I’ll drive for I’ll be 100 per cent committed, driving the car as fast as I can and taking it to new levels.”

“As Newey told me during our interview, all the success he?óÔé¼Ôäós enjoyed in F1 ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ eight drivers?óÔé¼Ôäó titles (soon to be nine) and eight constructors?óÔé¼Ôäó titles (ditto the last statement) ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ leads back to Leyton House. He says the victories and championships at Red Bull have been particularly sweet, because he views this team as the ?óÔé¼?ôunfinished business?óÔé¼?Ø he left behind him at the start, when he quit Leyton House with a heavy heart as the team began to unravel.”

“One corner stands out in particular. It’s listed on the circuit map as turns 10 and 11, but actually it is one long right-hander that seems to go on forever. It’s just fantastic to go through there and feel like the corner is never ending.”

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Charlie Whiting's words after the inspection of the BIC today were "its just beautiful, wish I brought my golf clubs to play on the verges"!

Comment of the day

Dave_E questions the changes to the DRS zone in India:

Looking back at last year?óÔé¼Ôäós race the passing done in the DRS zone was for the most part about how it should be with the DRS getting cars alongside but not easily all the way past. There was a few examples where DRS made things far too easy but more where it didn?óÔé¼Ôäót.

Extending the DRS zone will likely now shift the balance to the point where there is more of the easy passing & less of the passing where DRS works like it was supposed to.

I think there starting to lose sight of how DRS was supposed to work, It wasn?óÔé¼Ôäót supposed to make passing too easy, It was simply supposed to help get cars alongside & allow good wheel to wheel racing into the braking zone so that the actual pass had to be completed by the out-braking skills of the drivers.Dave_E